For some reason I’ve skipped Xaphan from The 2nd Masada Songbook on Tzadik. I thought this year’s invincible Bar Kokhba Sextet release was the first one yet indeed Trey Spruance’s madmen Secret Chiefs 3 were the first to step up to that holy task of getting 16 bar sheets of music from John Zorn and crafting them into their own creations.

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Oy! Back from what seems to be the last vacation of this summer. Let’s end the one week drought with one of the best albums of 2008, from the powerhouse sextet of the downtown scene (which I’ve been holding back since April).

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If there’s one person I won’t tire composing similar music, it’s John Zorn. His 2008 title The Dreamers is out and it’s basically The Gift No.2 with a lot of great references to genres like exotica and surf with the help of Cyro Baptista’s mood setting percussions and Marc Ribot’s delicate guitar tone, this time [...]

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Rewind!!
Here are some of the dead links from the past months, the Shackleton remix by Ricardo Villalobos has been getting mad clicks but it’s been dead for a while, so are the others. Enjoy!
UPDATE : realized that mp3space doesn’t let direct linking. Reupped to a new server. Bye bye mp3space, you looked promising..

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I normally can’t get my ass off the chair to go to a concert if I don’t know it a few days beforehand. Yesterday night though I had to act spontaneous as Marc Ribot was in town with his Spiritual Unity project playing Albert Ayler pieces. It was an intense show with little interaction between [...]

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Marc Ribot by Pennello
Here’s the second post I’ve backed up before I went on vacation, 2 great songs from 2 guitar giants. First Marc Ribot going wild with Yezriel, a bluesy song off his new album on Tzadik with a powerful riff on the wonderful Book of Angels series which previously saw the Jamie Saft [...]

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Beirut : Watching your city get bombed, how earth shattering.
Here’s #16 of our radioshows played by me last week. Starts off slow with a soundscape by SF artist Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, which has an Afghani love song sung on top. I don’t know why I felt so multicultural last week but I did, a little bit [...]

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Here comes the alleged Tzadik fanboy with a new and unfortunately the final release from The Cracow Klezmer Band. “Remembrance” released on Tzadik in March is a final testimony to the band with a terrific 2005 performance in Warsaw at the Polish National Radio concert studio. One thing the Eastern Europeans & Russians do is [...]

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Yes retroethnic!. A word I made up 5 minutes ago to describe today’s songs. The first song is by Tofig Guliyev, and it’s off the compilation, Jazz in Azerbaijan Anthology. I’m disappointed with the second CD of this compilation, which has lots of newage/midi drum stale jazz, but the first CD has this gem by 1917 born composer Guliyev which has a ripping guitar played like a tar on top of a 20s style big brass band joined by some accordeon and piano, very musical.

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Lovely work by Mary Allen Mark of The Art Dept.
Slow start with The Tree People’s self titled folk effort on Tiliqua and then a great song by Helsinki natives Korpi Ensemble which effortlessly fuse jazz and folk into pop sensibilities. We continue with a song with a taster of Feist’s new album The oReminder, followed [...]

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